Frank Trost was the photographer of record on the day the Lucas Gusher erupted in the Spindletop Oil Field. On January 10, 1901, Trost was notified of the events at Spindletop, just south of Beaumont. With his unwieldy camera equipment in tow, he mangaged to take at least one photograph of the gushing oil before sundown.

This is the back of the World Trade Building (must have been heady times). Here's the other side (yes, it's the same building):

Onward, down Proctor:

The Port Arthur Savings Building, complete with a piano to the front of the entrance

Keyhole Klub - where you walked in swingin'

Looking back from where I'd come while in front of Keyhole Klub. The Hotel Sabine is the large building in the distance on the right, the World Trade Building on the left. Not a soul around. I felt like I was on one of those Star Trek sets where the story took place on some post-apocalyptic, earth-like planet (say, like "Miri").